Martial 1.38. Scansion?
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2024 7:31 pm
Salvete.
I’m new to Latin poetry and am trying to understand this epigram in terms of syllable length and feet.
Quem recitas meus est, o Fidentine, libellus.
Sed male cum recitas, incipit esse tuus.
I’m thinking that it’s a hexameter followed by a pentameter but how this works in terms of feet escapes me. Would anyone care to help with the scansion of this elegiac couplet (I think)?
Is ‘tuus’ somehow a single long syllable?
I thought I was making good progress but I’m foxed.
I’m new to Latin poetry and am trying to understand this epigram in terms of syllable length and feet.
Quem recitas meus est, o Fidentine, libellus.
Sed male cum recitas, incipit esse tuus.
I’m thinking that it’s a hexameter followed by a pentameter but how this works in terms of feet escapes me. Would anyone care to help with the scansion of this elegiac couplet (I think)?
Is ‘tuus’ somehow a single long syllable?
I thought I was making good progress but I’m foxed.